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86 SMT007 MAGAZINE I JULY 2018
Article by Roger L. Franz
TE CONNECTIVITY
Full material declaration of product content
in electronics and other industries continues to
be a challenge for both suppliers and custom-
ers alike. For suppliers, managing substance-
level data for all the materials in products is not
usually a part of normal business operations;
rather, it is an added burden and therefore
cost to doing business. Customers, from mid-
supply chain enterprises to OEMs, must have
processes and systems to request, manage,
and utilize the data to ensure compliance with
worldwide substance regulations. These issues
call out for easy-to-use software solution to aid
reporting.
The IPC-1752A Materials Declaration
Management Standard, which is aligned with
IPC-1751A Generic Requirements for Decla-
ration Process Management, is widely used
for environmental reporting today. The stan-
dard specifies an XML (extensible markup
language) schema for mandatory and required
data, including support for Class D FMDs (full
material declarations) for homogenous materi-
als and substances required by the RoHS direc-
tive (the full citation for the current "RoHS
Recast" legislation is "Directive 2011/65/EU of
the European Parliament and of the Council
of 8
June 2011 on the restriction of the use of
certain hazardous substances in electrical and
electronic equipment").
In this paper, we focus on requirements for
tools that enable rapid and accurate reporting
of Class D FMDs that can be used by suppli-
ers primarily in the base of the supply chain
(e.g., raw materials and smaller components).
We also provide examples of how this data can
be used by the supplier's immediate customer
to build more complex FMD data for product-
level assemblies.
Why Take the Road to FMD?
One of the advantages of the FMD approach
is that it is the only way a company can stay
ahead of the ongoing addition of regulated
substances. RoHS has been relatively static in